Our Team

Meet The Team

Quentin Palfrey

Founder & Senior Advisor

Quentin has played a leadership role in voter protection programs in battleground states in numerous presidential, senatorial, and gubernatorial campaigns over the past 15 years. He was the 2004 New Hampshire voter protection director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, the 2008 Ohio voter protection director for the Obama-Biden campaign, and has been a senior advisor to numerous voter protection programs at the national level and in Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. In 2018, Palfrey was the Democratic nominee for Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor.

Jesse Littlewood

Executive Director

Jesse has decades of experience in advocating for voters, consumers and our democracy. From 2016-2022 Jesse led the counter disinformation work for the largest national non-partisan voter protection coalition. As Vice President for Campaigns at Common Cause, Jesse led a campaign that recruited 40,000 Election Protection volunteers in 2020. Jesse has decades of experience in democracy, environmental and public interest advocacy, growing grassroots online and offline support and raising millions in small dollar funding for nonpartisan causes. His leadership in the field brought him to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a lecturer, where he designed and taught course titled “Social Change in the Digital Age.” Jesse lives in Boston.

Anna Lucas

Campaign Manager

Anna Lucas is the Campaign Manager with the Voter Protection Corps.

Anna Maria Lucas started her career with the Human Rights Campaign as a Field Organizer mobilizing members and spearheading voter engagement efforts. Most recently, Anna served as Director of the Office of Rural Affairs at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), where she led efforts to support and empower rural small businesses across the country. Previously, Anna worked for EMILY’s List and spent over a decade on conservation and natural resource management issues in the Mountain West where she launched multi-state initiatives, managed coalitions, and advocated for natural resource and voting rights issues. She helped expand Rural and Native Voter programs across multiple states and in the wake of the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court’s restrictive voter ID law, and helped found the nonprofit North Dakota Native Vote.